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- Published on: 18 November 2003
- Published on: 18 November 2003Clozapine associated with myocarditis and cardiomyopathyShow More
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In their article, Tanner and Culling describe the risk of cardiomyopathy in clozapine treatment.[1] Kilian et al.[2] reported about 15 patients with myocarditis and cardiomyopathy out of 8000 patients treated with clozapine (0.178%) in Australia. In the European Drug Safety Program (AMSP) in Germany,Austria , and Switzerland,3 cases of myocarditis among 10,263 monitored patients with clozapine therapy...
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